When Anna Maria Myers was born in 1776, her father, Harmon Myers, was 15 and her mother, Odilla, was 15. She married Samuel Simon Shearer in 1811, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died about 1836, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Historical Boundaries: 1784: Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
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